242 OLFACTORY SENSE IN ANIMALS. 



LETTER XXIX. 



FROM EMILY TO CAROLINE. 



MY DEAR CAROLINE, 



Mr. Hervey accepts your challenge^ as he 

 thinks that the opportunities he has had of observing 

 animals wholly out of our reach will enable him to 

 furnish you frequently with both amusement and 

 information. 



In his opinion^* the sense of smell, in some ani- 

 mals, seems to be connected with certain mental sym- 

 pathies ; as those of hearing and sight are, in all that 

 possess them in any high degree. It has been ob- 

 served that dogs, though entirely unacquainted with 

 lions, will tremble and shudder at their roar ; and 

 an elephant that has never seen a tiger will, in 

 the same manner, show the strongest symptoms of 

 horror and affright at the smell of it. The late Lord 

 Clive exhibited a combat between two of these ani- 

 mals at Calcutta ; but the scent of the tiger had such 



* These sentiments, and this relation, are extracted from Mr. 

 Knight's elegant Analysis of Taste. 



